Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform integrates with EHRs and leverages AI, machine learning, and behavioral science to automate operations for inpatient, perioperative, emergency department, and command center functions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

In fact, he talks about how things are different today than they have been in the past (Partial Spoiler Alert: One example is the EHR data is there to trigger actions). Plus, he shares some innovative examples of what their customers are doing with their technology and what he sees coming in the future. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

This past year may very well have been the year the "new normal" was sealed for healthcare – one that includes a lot more telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual care than ever before. Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

In this way, hospitals and health systems can save costs by reducing the strain on healthcare workers making personal visits while improving patient outcomes to help guarantee the CMS program's continuation. This optimizes resource allocation and reduces the burden on healthcare workers for frequent in-person visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, if a healthcare organization doesn’t combine data across these systems, they can’t achieve the optimal patient experience that’s needed to create a welcoming digital front door. Many people reading this are probably wondering why a healthcare organization’s CRM doesn’t do this already.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2024

For example, within our own program, 38% of the diabetes diagnoses were newly diagnosed, and 25% of individuals diagnosed with hypertension were similarly newly diagnosed by their Teladoc primary care provider. These plans are growing in popularity as consumers increasingly demand and expect a virtual component to their healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The following is a guest article by Doug Bierbower, Vice President of Solutions Engineering at SOLiD Americas When delivering first-rate care, every aspect of the patient experience is critical. And in today’s always-connected 5G world, much of that experience depends on pervasive, secure mobile device connectivity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

"It significantly eases the way of our patients by extending our clinical team directly into homes, enhancing the quality of care we provide to patients with chronic conditions while streamlining the patient experience," she continued. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

Previously, Memorial's providers observed that relying on a third-party vendor solely for on-demand urgent care resulted in an inconsistent patient experience and raised concerns about quality due to limited data sharing. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. MEETING THE CHALLENGE At Providence, virtual care is being used to supplement or enhance care for patients. Click here to read the special report. " But technology is only one piece of this work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed McGillin to get him to explain his beliefs on the state of virtual care and where it is headed. Q: Is it possible virtual care technology will normalize access to leading health experts, for example, for second opinions? Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

What are workflows that showcase the potential of hybrid care delivery – in-person encounters and virtual sessions – in the future of healthcare? Healthcare IT News sat down with Mike Brandofino, CEO of Caregility, a vendor of telehealth technology and services, to get the answers to these important questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

For the 36th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Kathy Azeez-Narain, Chief Digital Officer at Hoag. We dive into the current state of Digital Transformation in healthcare and examine how it’s progressing. What’s an example of using digital to enhance the patient experience?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The program connects qualifying veterans with iPads, helping 50,000 of them more easily take part in telehealth services and access other VA virtual healthcare services. Evans, chief officer in the VA's Office Of Connected Care, spoke with Healthcare IT News earlier this year. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

KLAS Research is continuing to expand beyond its traditional focus on healthcare IT buyers and has put a focus on incorporating the voice of patients into their research. Over the past several years, the company has begun to offer content designed specifically to talk to clinicians about healthcare IT. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

"Developing clinical implementation knowledge for community dwelling individuals who experience [multiple chronic conditions] in relation to the effectiveness, cost, cost-effectiveness, and the patient experience will be crucial to realizing the promise and potential of telehealth," wrote researchers in the study.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Community Health Alliance (CHA) a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving 27,000+ patients in Reno, Nevada, is using an old-school way to encourage use of its online patient portal – by having in-person conversations about it. “We made the portal relevant to the conversation with them. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This allows the staff to work directly with the right patients to obtain consent and begin the process of placement in the home. An example is using automation to communicate to the food delivery team that the patient is currently getting an MRI at the hospital and to not deliver food to the patient's home until 2 p.m.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

"It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. "As an organization, we are focused on the patient and provider experience, so a user-friendly platform was a necessity. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services. "We've also been able to integrate the platform with other systems we have in place to improve the patient experience," he continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the rare opportunity to sit down with Renee DeSilva, Chief Executive Officer at The Health Management Academy (THMA). A good example of this shared insight came earlier this year when THMA published an article summarizing their findings on technology investment by leading health systems. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

For example, Babylon Health offers a symptom checker and AI/ML driven diagnosis recommendations to patients. The current landscape for healthcare innovations involves two entities: on one hand, healthcare institutions engaged in their own digital transformation efforts and on the other, digital disruptors.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To protect patient privacy and respect patient communication preferences, these laws require certain guidelines to be followed. A few examples are obtaining permission to share information with third parties, having patients “opt-in” to communications, and putting the right data security measures in place.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But one area that has held promise and hope is in the patient experience – couldn’t more engaged and satisfied patients lead to better health outcomes? What if an improved patient experience could help close gaps in care? Share your experience. T2: Is it possible for patients to experience burnout?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As providers move toward increasing virtual care options across the care continuum, AI-powered patient triage and medical diagnosis can potentially create proper channels of care that not only bridge the gap in health disparities and promote access but also create a better patient experience and better health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

And physicians and patients alike discovered there were many things they could accomplish over a video connection. " Healthcare IT News sat down with Dr. Peter Antall, chief medical officer at Amwell, to discuss delivering primary care via telemedicine, and how it can help patients, cut costs and aid population health management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Reimer to discuss in detail these issues and programs, and additionally get some tips from him on one of his focus areas, information security preparedness. For example, we will provide student enrichment opportunities and cyber executive education to enhance the pipeline and attract world-class talent.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright, President and CEO of MGMA, at the 2022 annual conference ( #MPE22 ) to get her take on the current state of physician practices. This may be due to the fact that many frontline and back-office jobs in healthcare do not have competitive salaries in today’s market.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, capitalizing on increased activity demands that leaders streamline their operations—including around patient financial engagement and payment—so they can make the investments needed to set themselves apart from the competition. But finding the right approach is key.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA. Innovation Examples. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“In the end, AMD’s solution allowed us to actually do a better job of gathering and trending important clinical data for each patient than we had when we sent physicians to the home,” Beckham said. “For example, the technology allowed us to take and store images of wounds so our providers could see changes over time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

Mike Morgan is president of Updox, a vendor of a healthcare communication platform for in-person and virtual care. Healthcare IT News sat down with Morgan to glean his expertise on the subject of virtual care moving forward. An example is a form. One way is to have a patient complete a paper form.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2020

This includes improving how they handle their communications with patients. For example, at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based It May Be Harder Than You Expected first appeared on Healthcare IT Today. based Northwell Health, they’re planning to introduce robotic process automation to direct […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example, Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust deployed AI-powered automation to support its back office functions that kept nurses bogged down with manual paperwork as well as supporting clinical settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 31, 2023

But few health systems are prepared to use this model to differentiate their patient experience. Ultimately, these health systems will be set back in the fight for healthcare talent and patient mindshare. For example, academic medical centers are leveraging virtual care to replace in-person visits for transplant patients.

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